So you went to Party City or some temporary Halloween store and bought your costume that you will wear for one night of costume contests and debautury. Now what? 

There will be an all ages show at The Rock, 136 N. Park Ave. The headliner of the evening will be Kill Devil Hill. They will be joined by Black Water Rising, Eyes Set to Kill, Dirtnap, We Killed The Union, Stay N The Fight and Blacklidge. There will be a costume contest and the winner gets $250 cash prize. RSVP here.

Congrats, Arizona: It turns out that we're cynical as all hell in this state now!

According to a release sent out today from Behavior Research Center's Rocky Mountain Poll, just more than half of Arizonans surveyed believe that the United States is "On the Road to Ruin," which I assume means a failure of our economy, of infrastructure, of government and probably an eventual takeover by corporate overlords or China, or something similarly frightening and depressing.

The negative sentiment is strong across all demographics (note: the following figures reflect the percentage of those who chose the negative response): While men and women both feel that our nation is crumbling, a slightly higher percentage of men (54%) are more certain about it than women (48%); rural Arizonans are more negative feeling about the country's fate than those in Pima or Maricopa counties (59% to 51% and 48%, respectively); and Caucasians are overwhelmingly discouraged about the future of America, with 59% of those surveyed believing that the country is in a bad way.

The most hopeful demographic surveyed? Democrats, who actually have a positive view: 47% believe that the U.S. is looking toward a better future, while 33% think we're all doomed to speak some blend of English and Mandarin in our future. Conversely, 62% of Republicans think we're on the road to failure, along with 61% of Independents.

Granted, it's a poll, so you should definitely take it with a grain or two of salt. Still, the fact that so many people are so overwhelmingly negative regarding the future of the country, on the heels of the government shutdown and the ongoing problems with registration for Obamacare, it's no wonder we're frustrated. I'm not sure we're destined to be the next failed empire, but things aren't looking too great.

If you're interested in checking out the poll, this link will take you straight to the PDF; it also includes a second poll noting that incumbents are pretty damn screwed next election, and that Republicans in particular should watch their asses if they're looking to stay in elected office.

[Rocky Mountain Poll]

Folks are still talking about Buddy Guy's set at the Rialto Theatre last Friday, Oct. 25. Guy is among the pioneers of the Chicago style of electric blues, stolen outright by rock bands of the 60s and 70s, and played to this day in local clubs and bars throughout the world. His shows are an important reality check: They temper our tolerance for cheap imitations.

I frequent a lot of the drinking establishments and there's always one place where I can get my drunk food fix: Rob Dogs.

You might have seen this giant pink food drunk parked at the Creative Village parking lot alongside Bumsteds Diner. Eating at Robdogs has become a routine since I started performing stand up on Wednesday nights at Mr. Head's. I came to realization during one of my fourth avenue walks with Izzy that I have never had a Robdog meal sober. She said that they don't taste the same without all the alcohol in your system. We experimented this theory and found that it's still good while not under the influence. 

We are going to launch our brand spanking new Best of Tucson app next Wednesday, October 30 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Sky Bar on 536 North Fourth Avenue. There will be drink specials for people that download the app on their smartphone or tablet, and the first 100 lucky people that show up will get a free limited edition Tucson Weekly shot glass.

An overheard, ignorant statement inspired the profound performance above by Pages Matam at the 2013 National Poetry Slam in August. While riding the bus Matam overheard a man say to woman, "you're too ugly to be raped." In the poem, Matam asks the man he overheard to tell the one rape victim out of every five women in this country that they are beautiful, and that their four counterparts are ugly. He addresses the sexual assault crisis within the military. He asks if Elizabeth Frizel's beauty constituted the rape, imprisonment, physical and sexually abuse by her father. 

In three minutes Matam paints a gritty picture with his extreme words that's hard to ignore the rest of the day.

The sad part is that 97% of rapists will never see a day in jail.

If you're not aware of what #TeamKaDeem is, it means you've either not been checking your Twitter feed lately or have avoided the University of Arizona athletics department Web site.

Or you're just wondering why there's a pound sign in the front of that word, in which case you should probably click onto the next story on The Range.

#TeamKaDeem is the marketing/PR campaign Arizona has established for Ka'Deem Carey, UA football's uberstar who is once again tearing up opposing defenses with big runs and legs that never seem to stop moving, even after he's got one or four tacklers grabbing onto him.

The campaign actually is in its second incarnation, having first popped up at the end of last season, which saw Carey lead the nation in rushing yards with 1,929 as a sophomore. It was meant to serve as the launching point for a possible Heisman Trophy campaign entering Carey's junior year ... until he decided to have the offseason from hell.

First there was the alleged domestic violence incident with the mother of his then-unborn son, which led to an arrest and criminal charges before the Tucson city prosecutor dropped the case over the summer. Then there were some traffic citations, including driving without proper registration, followed by the staple of all rising athletic stars — the "do you know who I am?" moment when Carey was kicked out of McKale Center during a UA basketball game for sitting where he didn't belong and getting smart with an arena official.

All of that resulted in Carey sitting out Arizona's opener against Northern Arizona, then not playing until the second quarter of the game at UNLV. But since then — literally, from the very moment he hit the field; as his first carry went for an untouched 58-yard touchdown — it's like he'd never missed any time.

Carey's recent exploits including going off for 236 yards against Utah, then rushing for 119 yards and four touchdowns in the win at Colorado. He's again No. 1 in the nation with at 153.3 yards per game, so now it's time to pimp the heck out of him, I guess.

#TeamKaDeem also is being used to track Carey's progress toward the top of Arizona's record books. He's now 550 yards shy of passing Trung Canidate for the Wildcats' all-time leading rusher, while he's five rushing TDs and and six total scores from passing Art Luppino for both of those school career marks.

The guy who seemingly wins all of Tucson's culinary competitions, Ryan Clark, is leaving the Lodge on the Desert to take over Agustin Kitchen (formerly Agustin Brasserie, which answers the question "What on earth is going on with that place?"). Clark, who also has a cookbook coming out this week, will launch the new look of the Mercado San Agustin restaurant space in four to six weeks after what the press release calls "selective remodeling and refurnishing."

The press release is below the cut.

It appears that voters will have a chance to decide the fate of the HB 2305, the omnibus election overhaul passed by the Arizona Legislature in the final days of the session. (You can find details on the law here.)

Opponents of the bill turned in about 146,000 signatures last month to force a referendum on the law, which will put it on hold until voters can decide its fate on the November 2014 ballot. To qualify for the ballot, the Protect Your Right To Vote Committee needed 86,405 valid signatures.

Political strategist Robbie Sherwood expects that following a review by the county recorders across the state, the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office will certify the petitions with about 112,000 signatures this week.

“I can't say what the other side will do, but that is an overwhelming cushion,” Sherwood says. “We had an unprecedented 80 percent verification rate under strict compliance standards. There is just not going to be some magic technicality that nobody has yet seen that is going to invalidate 30,000 of our signatures.”

But Barrett Marson, a spokesman for two political committees that support the law, says his groups will go to court in an attempt to invalidate a number of signatures based on the argument that some of the petition passers were ineligible to collect signatures in Arizona.

“There are thousands upon thousands of signatures that are likely to be invalid,” Marson said. “It’s early in the game yet.”

One of the sleepiest election cycles in recent memory is coming to an end next Tuesday, Nov. 5, as city voters decide the Ward 3 race between incumbent Democrat Karin Uhlich and GOP challenger Ben Buehler-Garcia, and the Ward 5 race between incumbent Democrat Richard Fimbres and GOP challenger Mike Polak.

It’s the second election cycle to feature the city’s all-new, all-mail election system, with ballots sent to every voter and just seven polling places set up around town.

The ballots went out on Oct. 17 and a brief look at the returns as of Tuesday, Oct. 29, shows that the Democratic candidates are looking pretty good.

A total of 16,425 Democrats have returned their ballots, while just 9,146 Republicans have sent theirs back in. Another 6,653 voters that we can loosely call independents have also sent in their ballots.

So unless Buehler-Garcia and Polak are getting highly unlikely crossover numbers, the Dems have a solid lead.

But the all-mail system is a new one and those returns represent just 14 percent of the 225,294 ballots that were sent out. So a bunch of voters may still send in their ballots this week, and a bunch may still drop them off on Election Day.

BTW: If you haven’t yet mailed in your ballot by Thursday, Oct. 31, you’ll want to drop it off at one of the six polling places on Election Day. Here's where they'll be.